Instructor: Karen Larson-Hahn
Community: Adolescent Group, Classroom setting?
Plan Creation Date: February 28, 2013
Yoga Calm Principle/Lesson Goal: Grounding
Lesson Plan:
Introduction: Today we are going to focus on grounding; to be physically present in our bodies and learn ways to feel safe by standing up for ourselves and being assertive
Calm
- Belly breathing with sphere led by group member
- Pulse count
Activate
- Volcano breath-imagine your breath rising from the earth like a volcano
- Wood Chopper
- Mountain-Feel your feet anchored to the ground
- Roots-Imagine roots growing from the bottom of your feet, securing you to the earth, making you feel stable and strong
- Crescent Moon
- Modified Dancer
- Forward Bend
- Lunge-right leg back
- Warrior 1 – Feeling the earth underneath your feet, grounding you
- Downward Dog
- Forward Bend
- Lunge-left leg back
- Warrior 1
- Forward Bend
- Chair
- Mountain
(Hold poses to help your body feel strong and grounded)
Harassment Prevention Activity
- Staff model situation in which there are mixed messages through tone and body language when asking a person to stop engaging in a certain behavior. Discuss the role play with emphasis on what need to do to be effective in our communication (i.e. eye contact, tone of voice, actual message etc.)
- Group members practice asserting themselves using guidelines
- In a kind way tell the person to stop
- Say it again, this time ground your feet, use your strong voice and say the person’s name
- Give a warning; “If you don’t stop I’m going to tell a teacher/staff member, etc.”
- “If you don’t stop, I don’t want to be around you.”
- Tell someone or follow through with the warning
- Believe in yourself and keep trying and know you may need to do this several times before getting the person to stop bullying or harassing you.
Calm
- Volcano breath – seated (repeat 3 times).
- Visualize yourself grounding your feet and using your strong voice and standing up to someone. How does it feel? Who can help you to be strong?